Artificial fly.



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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 633,726, datedSeptember 26, 1899.

Application filed May 5,1899- T0 60 whom it may concern- Be it knownthat I, ALISON MANcHEs'rER, a citizen of the United States, residing inBarkhamsted, in the county of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Artificial Bait, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to artificial flies generally employed whenfishing with rod and 3 line and it has for its object the provision ofan article of the character mentioned in which the wings of the insectare imitated as closely as possible and movement may be imparted to thesame when the device is whipped upon the surface of the the water, so asto give a lifelike appearance to the fly.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a top view of the fly. Fig. 2 is aside view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal central sectionillustrating the manner in which the flybody is secured to the hook.

Similar characters designate like parts in all the figures of thedrawings.

In the drawings, designates the body of the fly, made of proper materialand adapted to float upon the surface of the water.

11 represents the hook, secured to the body 10 by means of the cord orlight wire 13 and having at its forward end the usual eye or otherdevice 14, to which the fishing-line 15 may be secured.

Upon the body 10 and at the side opposite to the hook 11 is a spindle16, which is journaled in an eye 17, formed of lightsheet metal or othermaterial, having foot portions 18, by which and in connection with thewinding of wire or cord 19 said spindle is firmly held in positionrelatively to the hook. At the ends of the spindle 16 are secured wings2O 21, respectively arranged at angles to each other, so that when onepair of wings, as 20, is in one position the wings 21 are in anotherposition, and by these means no matter how the fly maybe located on thewater one of the wings 20 or 21 will. always come into contact with thesurface thereof, and consequently when the fly is whipped along saidsurface the resistance of the water against the wing in contacttherewith will cause such spindle and therefore all the wings torotate,- as will be readily understood. As above stated, the hook 11 andspindle 16 are positioned at op posite sides of the body 10, so thatsaid hook will serve as a heel to preserve the proper equilibrium of thebody and the wings thereon above the water.

Although the spindle to which the. wings are secured is illustrated asarranged horizontally on the body 10, yet the invention is not limitedthereto, as said wings may be at tached to a vertical spindle or to aspindle otherw'se located in any suitable position upon the body withoutdeparting therefrom, the design of the invention being to provide a bodyrepresenting the desired kind of flying insect with wings which by theirmovement will imitate the natural action of the insect.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

1. The combination with an artificial bait of a hook secured to theunder side of said bait, whereby it serves as a keel therefor; and pairsof wings arranged at an angle to each other mounted for rotation on thetop of the bait.

2. The combination with an artificial bait constructed of materialadapted to float upon the water, of a hook secured to said bait belowthe line of its longitudinal axis and serving as a keel therefor;bearings mounted on the top of the bait; a spindle journaled in saidbearings; and pairs of wings carried by said spindle, one pair of saidwings being arranged at right angles to the other pair.

The combination with an artificial bait having a body portion shaped torepresent the desired insect, said bait carrying a hook cured to thebait; bearings having foot porin said bearings; and pairs of Wings, onepair tions attached to the bait; and a spindle cararranged at an angleto the other pair, atrying Wings joui'naled in said bearings. tached tothe ends of the spindle.

5. The combination with an artificial bait ALISON MANCHESTER.

carrying a hook, of bearings having foot por- XVitnesses:

tions secured by a Winding of cord or Wire \VM. H. O. BLODGETT, t0 thetop of said bait; a spindle journaled I HENRY BIssELL.

